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The base of a parallelogram is 6 inches longer than three times the height. The area of the parallelogram is 24 square inches. What is the height?

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To answer this, you would use the formula for area of a parallelogram. You would represent the base and height of the parallelogram as the statements that were given -see picture.

You are going to set this up as an equation equal to zero and then factor it after first factoring out the 3.

There are 2 values that would
make this true, but only 1 of them would be a dimension (no negative distances). See the work in my picture.
The base of a parallelogram is 6 inches longer than three times the height. The area-example-1
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